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Jeanette Winterson

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English writer

United KingdomWritersBorn 1959 · age 67
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Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology.

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2016BBC 100 Women
2016Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
1993Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction
1991British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series
1990E. M. Forster Award
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.

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United Kingdom
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Writers
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living
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Born 1959 · age 67
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29 languages

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